Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma to The Moment: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder’s slasher spectacular, and Charli xcx’s mockumentary about her Brat summer. Plus, Sydney Sweeney’s immaculate conception
In her previous two movies, indie director Jane Schoenbrun explored the uncanny spaces we inhabit between the internet, TV and our daily lives. For her dark and delirious new drama, she delves into movies and their unsettling hold on us. Hacks’ Hannah Einbinder plays Kris, an up-and-coming queer film-maker hired to reboot Camp Miasma, a “problematic” Friday the 13th-style slasher horror franchise. For research, she visits the original’s reclusive star, Billy (Gillian Anderson), who, bizarrely, lives in the film’s abandoned summer camp location. As the women get closer, reality and Camp Miasma’s grisly fiction start to blur in a giddy, psychosexual blowout.
Friday 2 October, Mubi
